Acoustic
Best for: mornings & quiet hours
Fingerpicked guitar, brushed snare, the occasional swell of cello. British folk delicacy without the festival-headliner energy.
SoundPour is original, royalty-free background music for UK cafés, wine bars and small restaurants, from morning coffee through to last orders. Every track is original work, generated under paid commercial licence, and is not registered with PRS for Music, PPL, or any other collecting society. From £149 a year.
Every SoundPour track is made for the room it'll be played in - a Pennine Sunday morning, a Friday lunch service, a wine-bar evening. Collections for the daytime, and a few that lean into the evening. Pick one for the room, or follow The Curated Day from morning through to evening.
Fingerpicked guitar, brushed snare, the occasional swell of cello. British folk delicacy without the festival-headliner energy.
Parisian café jazz threaded with brushed drums and double bass. For long lunches and the lull just after.
Sun-warmed downtempo for terrace tables and slow Sundays. Soft pads, brushed percussion, no urgency.
Sit-back-in-the-corner-booth music. Soft, unhurried, designed to live behind conversation rather than in front of it.
Bristol-school production warmth, downtempo grooves, dusty atmosphere. Slow breakbeats under tape hiss and reverb, made for café floors.
Liquid drum & bass at its most melodic and atmospheric. Warmer and slower than the name suggests - sophisticated rather than energetic.
Slow electronic textures with a half-time pulse. Quiet enough for morning service, deep enough to hold an evening room.
Slow-burn neo-soul - Rhodes chords, elastic sub-bass, the voice used like candlelight. For wine bars and evening service, after the daytime crowd has gone.
Classic UK 2-step garage, shuffled and soulful. Chopped vocal hooks rolling over a warm bassline - for weekend evenings with the lights down low.
Melodic, hypnotic and continental. Glass-and-steel after-dark atmosphere for late lounges - never a rave, always a room you'd want to linger in.
A running order for the whole day, built by ear rather than by algorithm. Soft acoustic in the morning, smooth jazz over lunch, terrace sessions into the late afternoon, halftime or trip-hop for evening service. During the beta you move between them yourself. Automatic switching is the next thing we're building.
Where The Curated Day signs off, this takes over. Trip-hop as the lights come down, R&B Nights through cocktail hour, garage lifting the weekend peak, techno carrying the last tables home. The same running order, tuned for rooms that stay open after dark.
TheMusicLicence rates change every April. These figures are taken straight from PPL PRS's 2026 tariff schedule. Pick what matches your business. What this comparison cannot tell you is whether your venue still needs TheMusicLicence. That depends on every music source in your building, and it is a question for you and PPL PRS.
Don't know your exact bill? The typical café pays around £536.96 a year - we've pre-filled that. Change it if you know your real number.
TheMusicLicence for a venue like yours costs £536.96 a year. SoundPour costs £149 in your first year at the early sign-up price, then £249 from year two, a difference of about £288. Whether both of these figures apply to your venue, or only one, is a matter for you and PPL PRS to establish.
SoundPour is not a workaround or a grey area. It is a different kind of catalogue: original work that has never been registered with a collecting society. What that means for your own venue is yours to establish, and we give you the documentation to do it.
PRS and PPL collect royalties on behalf of writers and performers who are members. No writer or performer behind a SoundPour track is a member of either, here or anywhere else in the world.
Read how the licensing works →Every track is made specifically for the rooms it'll play in - café mornings, long lunches, wine-bar evenings, small venues of every kind - here in Darlington. Researched, shaped, and chosen one by one. Original work, never lifted from anyone else's catalogue.
None of the music is registered with PRS, PPL, ASCAP, BMI or any other collecting society anywhere in the world. SoundPour maintains dated production records for the catalogue.
Every subscription comes with a Documentation Pack: a written licence to play the music at your premises, and a Declaration of Provenance covering your catalogue, suitable to put in front of PPL PRS, your accountant or your solicitor.
If you can play Spotify through your speakers, you can run SoundPour. There's no box to install and no hardware to buy.
What time you open, when you're busiest, and what you want the room to feel like. We put together a selection that fits. No card details, and nothing to sign at this stage.
A tablet, a laptop, a phone or the till machine, plugged into your sound system. That's the whole setup.
The Curated Day sets a running order from morning through to evening. During the beta you move between collections yourself, which takes a couple of taps. Music that changes itself is the next thing we're building.
A few basic details and we set up a private music player for your venue, free for 90 days. Nothing to install, no card, no commitment. You will be playing music the same week.
Start your free betaor email us directly: hello@soundpour.co.uk